The Vanua Levu Group is an
archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the o ...
in northern
Fiji
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
. It takes its name from its predominant island,
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu (pronounced , , ), formerly known as Sandalwood Island, is the second largest island of Fiji. Located to the north of the larger Viti Levu, the island has an area of and a population of 135,961 .
Geology
Fiji lies in a tectonic ...
. Among the other island in the group, the most important is
Taveuni
Taveuni (pronounced ) is the third-largest island in Fiji, after Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, with a total land area of . The cigar-shaped island, a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, is situated east of Vanua ...
. Other islands in the group include
Laucala
Laucala (pronounced ) is one of a triplet of small islands that lie to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni in Fiji. The privately owned islands are the site of the Laucala Resort.
The total land area of the main island is . It is ...
,
Matagi
The are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Ani area in Akita Prefecture, which is known for the Akita dogs. Afterwards, they spread to the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Akita and ...
,
Namena Lala
Namena Lala (sometimes spelt Namenalala) is a volcanic islet in Fiji, an outlier to the northern island of Vanua Levu (off Wainunu Bay), away. Situated at 17.11° South and 179.10° East, it covers an area of . Its maximum altitude is . The isl ...
,
Qamea
Qamea (pronounced ) is one of three islets lying to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni, Fiji, the others being Matagi and Laucala.
Geography
Qamea lies some 2.5 kilometers east of Thurston Point and covers an area of 34 square ...
,
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Places
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** Rabí Castle, a castle
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,
Vorovoro and
Yadua Tabu. They have an aggregate area of , with a total population of 140,016 at the 1996
census
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, the last held.
The Vanua Levu Group is coextensive with Fiji's
Northern Division, one of four into which the country is divided for
local government
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Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...
purposes. Together with the remote
Lau Islands
The Lau Islands (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty are inhabited. T ...
, they form the
Tovata Confederacy
Tovata is one of three ''confederacies'' comprising the Fijian House of Chiefs, to which all of Fiji's chiefs belong.
Details of Tovata
It is located in the north east of the country, covering the provinces of Bua, Macuata and Cakaudrove on ...
, one of three
chiefly hierarchies.
.
Archipelagoes of Fiji
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
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